"Haidt, who boosted his career blaming social media for every problem from mental health to school failure, drugs, shootings, suicide, and destroying childhood, completely ignores parental abuses, addictions, mental health, and crime issues."

This is such a great plain-English history by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social - do go watch! youtu.be/8VL16A7OWiw?...

If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it The anti-teen-social-media case keeps falling apart even as it peaks politically.

🤟 Free Speech Fridays: Larry Lessig making moves 👀 Great education and interview @taylorlorenz.bsky.social appreciate your dedication to journalism and the people youtu.be/AjykgjyPuhs?...

I think one big impediment to this is that Substack offers far and away the best publishing/analytics tools. I've been on Patreon a few months now and it's shocking that the company can function, they don't even show you the most basic revenue breakdowns! Wish we had better platform offerings

WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."

shout out to @taylorlorenz.bsky.social & @kattenbarge.bsky.social for a great (& extremely validating) episode today, my favorite white women in tech/pop culture journalism fr

Interesting discussion about #TaylorSwift from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and @kattenbarge.bsky.social youtu.be/piHg3ONYysQ?...

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview. This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association. I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

Andrew Cuomo is going all in on MAGA influencers, ghost posts, Bestie Epstein, Gen Z's 'going out top,' Razzlekhan released, anti-facial recognition glasses, a new streamer award show, Eric Adams on Ziwe, goth girl autumn, real estate's slop era, and MORE in today's newsletter!!

I just got added to the list "uncritical chorus haters/people who believe Taylor Lorenz's lies," and I can't stop laughing. What is the point of these lists? Here's a link to @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Wired article. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

Video by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social with @kattenbarge.bsky.social on Emiru's assault at Twitchcon convention youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Eb...

This, from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, stood out: "The questions that are being asked about content creators were previously asked about bloggers. Then many bloggers were eventually subsumed into traditional media because they couldn’t monetize effectively on their own. Now I think people can."

Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government

Now that they've passed age-verification for porn sites, Ohio legislators want you to scan your face to download a period tracker.

It's an absolutely ahistorical take. The US has banned books throughout its history — literature, pornography, art, health resources, classified information. Court victories limited the ability of censors to criminalize sale, so they've focused on restricting access. But the power is still there.

Restricting access (age-verification laws) and creating liability for publishing (FOSTA/SESTA) have been the shorter term solutions. Censorship is not one thing (book bans) but a series of strategies used to limit access to ideas that the government finds dangerous or destabilizing.

Vibe lifing, the GTA 6 twerk button, NBA ASMR, bricked smartbeds, YouTubers at the Pentagon, Musk's robot army, Sora pet videos, gooning mania, inside MrBeast’s $100M day in court, and MORE in today's newsletter

Oh dear!!

Was very cool to see @taylorlorenz.bsky.social masking for this interview at TwitchCon with the CEO of Twitch (less cool how he tried to dodge all accountability about misogyny on his platform).

Why the fuck are they weighing in on a copyright case regarding intermediary liability questions? Well, as always, because they see it as a way to chip away at intermediary safe harbors that enable the internet and speech on it. Anything that will enable lawsuits to suppress speech is good to them

A lot of people don't know their history or focus and assume "oh, they're against sexual exploitation, so they must be good." But they're a bunch of extremely cynical, censorial, people who wish to move to a very censored internet world of only good clean Christian content.

Over the last decade, this has meant they have attacked tons of internet related companies and policies, all in the goal of stifling speech online. A key target for them has been to outlaw encryption. They also regularly attack Section 230. Basically anything that enables speech online, they hate.

If you don't know NCOSE actually started as "Operation Yorkville" and then "Morality in Media" an extremist religious org focused on stomping out ALL adult content, which they describe as pornographic. But it includes anything from LGBTQ content to atheism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

the day that society at large understands that testosterone and estrogen are necessary hormones in your body regardless of your sex, and that hormone supplementation is a health question rather than a loaded emotional question, will be one of the greatest days in human history.

NEW: @andrewdeck.bsky.social and I found the @waybackmachine.bsky.social has been archiving news homepages less frequently for the past 5 months. The result: an 87% drop in homepage snapshots across 100 news outlets during a very newsy year. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

CDC numbers show teen girls, especially those w drug/alcohol abusing parents, have LOWER rates of suicide & self-harm the MORE they use social media, once again showing that the entire anti social media panic underpinning phone bans harms young ppl/girls mikemales.substack.com/p/ill-consid...

10 things that will get you labeled as a terrorist by the government, Taliban influencers, H00pify's Airbnb fiasco, statue-maxxing, MrBeast banking, Cava's dating show, Heineken vs AI, ByteDance's chatbot, an intimacy coordinator film festival-- and MORE in today's newsletter!

Cam Higby/"Temu Charlie Kirk" is here, again, filming protesters and trying to agitate. For now, people are mostly not taking the bait. He briefly complained to a Broadview police officer about someone yelling into a megaphone near his ear, says it was "assault."

This is a really fucking good and thorough read on such an asinine incident. I only know of Piker (I have zero interest in political/culture streamers, even progressive ones) but the fact that this became such “a thing” is troubling. TL;DR: No amount of truth will ever stop determined liars.

The Hasan Piker dog collar incident shows that proponents of the surveillance state, like Larry Ellison, who claimed that mass video surveillance would lead to more accountability, are catastrophically wrong.

The Hasan Piker dog collar incident shows that proponents of the surveillance state, like Larry Ellison, who claimed that mass video surveillance would lead to more accountability, are catastrophically wrong.

I don’t normally wade into this kind of drama, but regardless of what you think of Hasan the reaction to this situation has been scary. The fact that I’ve seen normal and left leaning people act like he is a dog abuser when the only evidence is a clip being peddled by Zionist and Nazis is not good.

I cannot stress enough how important teaching media literacy is if we want to save the internet and democracy.

If a picture is worth a thousand words. How much is a video clip worth? It's amazing how many people can't comprehend that there are literally infinite ways to lie with video footage. Even before the rise of AI. It's always been a problem.

I wrote about mass video surveillance and what the Hasan Piker dog controversy says about where our internet is headed.

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Good video by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social regarding ubiquitous video surveillance and manufactured controversy youtu.be/TVaAlBfNnJY?...

Blueanon is fucking insane 'If you believe this, you have lost touch with reality.' Thank you @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for this really good breakdown. youtu.be/TVaAlBfNnJY?...

Thank you @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for reporting on this attack against Hasan. Everyone who watches him knows he doesn't abuse his dog. Kaya is so loved. youtube.com/watch?v=TVaA...

"The reality right now is that if you refuse to engage with the science- the science that shows that COVID is a virus that disables human beings, and that this virus is asymptomatic 44% of the time- then you are spreading a disabling virus, and you are harming people. "

politics is just knowing who is beefing with who and assembling the biggest group of haters

This recipe for mushroom crispy rice is the best thing you’ll ever eat

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

Every comedian who’s argued they’re participating in the Riyadh Comedy Festival not for the government—but for the *people* dagnabbit!—seem to want you to forget that it’s the Saudi *government* that’s hosting this thing.

It is always wildly unproductive to bully average users of mass-adopted technologies (especially when they’re marginalized people) rather than corporations and those in charge of the tech giants. Good to keep the intense scrutiny and criticism of the rollout of AI on people in power 💪

‘Wait, this is happening to ME so we need to do something about it.’ -ancient Republican mantra

These VCs are sociopaths

The way the internet will show up and show out to talk shit the second anyone mentions @taylorlorenz.bsky.social is honestly so funny. Which part are you scared about? A woman calling out corruption, or the fact that she doesn't pretend covid is a cold? 🙄 Outta my mentions w/that lol